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| “ | I used to want to be like Ichigo-chan, however, I now know that I need to find my own light. This is my story! | „ |
| ~ Akari as she begins to find her sense of self in Season 2. |
Akari Ōzora is the main protagonist from the Starlight School community who made her debut in the second half of the second season and the 4th collection of the Aikatsu! series. She is a cute-type idol and her primary brand is Dreamy Crown.
She is voiced by Shino Shimoji.
Bio[]
Akari is an idol who won the Idol Caravan to enter Starlight Academy and one of Ichigo's biggest fans. Akari is a girl aiming to be her own star as she walks down the path to idol-dom. She's sweet, yet clumsy, but never gives up. While not particularly talented, through hard work and a desire to shine she's now become an idol all her own. She's a cute type idol who uses the brand Dreamy Crown.
Personality[]
Akari Is a huge fan of Ichigo who auditioned to get into Starlight, but failed. Fast-forward to the Idol Caravan, where girls who auditioned to get into Starlight but failed could audition again. After hearing that Ichigo would be one of the judges and that this could be her last chance to get into Starlight, she tried out again and made it.
Etymology[]
Ōzora (大空) Ō (大) means big and combined with Zora (空 sora) which means sky, Ōzora means big/vast sky. As said in Episode 177, this refers to her becoming greater than/encompassing the sun and the moon.
Akari (あかり) means light or brightness.
Trivia[]
- Her zodiac sign is Aries.
- Coincidentally, her birthday is the same day as April Fool's Day.
- Her favorite foods are watermelons, chocolate, donuts, mandarin oranges, and curry.
- Her specialty is imitation.
- Formerly her favorite brand was Angely Sugar.
- Akari, along with Mizuki, Yurika, and Ichigo, have shown themselves to be the most consistently popular main characters, having made it into all election-determined incarnations of Aikatsu8 and Photokatsu8 since their debut.
- Akari is the second known idol to cut her hair.
- She is also the second to have a side ponytail as her hair style.
- She is also the first to change hair style more than once.
- She is the first idol to make a mistake during her debut performance.
- She is the fourth idol overall to make a mistake, following Ichigo Hoshimiya, Sakura Kitaōji, and Ran Shibuki and is followed by Sumire Hikami.
- Akari is the third person to be shown in a normal school uniform.
- She is also the third person to attend a Starlight entrance audition in a regular school uniform.
- She is the first season two character to not share her singer.
- She is also the first to have a new member of STAR☆ANIS as her singer.
- She is also the third main character who doesn't share her singing voice.
- Akari is the first known idol to perform a Dress Appeal in the anime.
- She's the first known idol to change her basic pose after going through the changing room, and the second known overall to change her pose, first being Mizuki.
- She is the second idol not to have a primary brand in the season she debuted, following Shion Kamiya, who debuted in season one, but had her primary brand confirmed as Futuring Girl in season two.
- Akari is the first character to grow her hair out after cutting it and the first character to have had four different hairstyles.
- She is the first character to use a brandless coord (non-basic) for a performance in season two.
- She is the first idol to have trouble performing a Special Appeal.
- She is the second idol to have the color of her school dresses change between seasons (from apricot to pink).
- Out of all the main characters, Akari has the longest record of performances without having a preferred brand (30 episodes), beating out Mizuki Kanzaki, who wore her first Love Queen dress 27 episodes after her debut.
- She has a habit of kissing her Aikatsu cards before her performances.
- Akari has the fastest record of receiving her second Premium Rare Coord (5 episodes as the movie takes place between Episode 112 and Episode 113).
- She is the first idol to have two autographs that she uses through the course of the series.
- She is the only main idol to do performances for certain episodes in the anime adaptation's second half of season 2 before being promoted to "central protagonist" for Season 3's Aikatsu! anime adaption.
- Akari is the only idol from Season 2 who didn't have an Idol Aura in her debut performance.
- Overall she is the fourth character not to have an aura in her debut performance.
- Akari is one of the few main characters for the Aikatsu! anime adaption to make cameo appearances before her actual debut episode.
- For this case, Akari made cameo appearances 50 and 51 until making her debut appearance in Episode 76.
- In homeroom, Akari sits in the same seat as Ichigo did when she was still in Johnny's class.
- She is the first idol whose aura changed while not wearing a new Premium Rare.
- She addresses Seira as Otoshiro-senpai in the latter half of Season 2, but now calls her Seira-san as of Season 3.
- Akari is 155cm tall as of Season 4.
- As of Episode 177, Akari replaces Sakura as the new Starlight Queen.
- In that same episode, Akari achieves several firsts - she is the first idol to have her Premium Rare's Dress Aura appear, the first to successfully perform a Special-A rank Special Appeal, and the only idol (group or solo) to ever max out the Stage Points meter in a competition.
- She shares her singing voice with Hime Shiratori and Aria Futaba from Aikatsu! Stars.